What are the pros and cons of conventional oil?
Pros Cons: What are the pros and cons of conventional oil? Pros Cons Oil is still cheap; when adjusting for inflation it costs about the same as it did in 1975. It is easily transported within and between countries and, when extracted from easily accessible deposits, it has a high net energy yield. Oil can cause pollution and environmental degradation throughout its life cycle of extraction, processing, transporting, and use. The oil-drilling process causes land disturbance, which can accelerate erosion. It produces waste materials (soil, rock, and drilling muds removed from the hole), and can pollute soil and water if some of the oil is spilled. Leakage of drilling muds can contaminate nearby surface and groundwater. Burning fuel oil and gasoline releases heat-trapping carbon dioxides which could alter global climate, and other air pollutants such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides that harm people, crops, trees, fish, and other species. What are the pros and cons of using heavy oi
